“Saturnine Saturday III” A three-dimensional painting, mixed media Acrylic on wood, from the night picture series. Another one of the night pictures inspired by my nightly walks on my spirit-tinged golf course.

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Leon is currently painting on surfaces of materials that he describes as “urban” and with the destruction of the pictorial application technique, as well as the dystopian vision of rational or geometric arrangements resulting in a compositional organization of quality abstract and a universe of an ordered imbalance.  

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paint, ink drawing, and gold leaf on paper, 2021.

This piece plays with the idea of zooming in and out of things, using varying tools to create different thicknesses in line and stroke. Segmented areas create an aesthetic and an organizational composition referencing Mondrian, while large while strokes play in juxtaposition to these more seemingly ordered and contained areas.

hand-pulled silk screened shapes, ink drawing, and gold leaf on paper, 2016.

This piece started out as a portrait of a friend, over the course of working on it I experienced a lot of betrayal regarding this person, so it turned into a very angry expression. Kintsugi is a Japanese form of mending ceramics with gold. Here I have used the gold leaf in expressive text and splatters to signify the sealing of the ended fate of this relationship instead. Ending this relationship allowed me to mend myself by removing what wasn’t good for me and sealing it out of my life forever.

My work considers ideas about the differences between labor and leisure–two concepts that took on even newer meanings during our months of mandatory quarantine.  My work also explores the relationship between how we choose to spend our time and what that says about what we value.  Again, two concepts that were highlighted repeatedly, and in new ways, during this time.  Both pieces in this show were made as part of my larger body of work that speaks about personal and cultural acts of narcissism, but I selected them for this exhibition because they can also be read effectively through the lens of quarantine motherhood, a time when extreme self-reflection was required for survival.

How can we get noticed if we’re all doing the same things? (confidence)

My work considers ideas about the differences between labor and leisure–two concepts that took on even newer meanings during our months of mandatory quarantine.  My work also explores the relationship between how we choose to spend our time and what that says about what we value.  Again, two concepts that were highlighted repeatedly, and in new ways, during this time.  Both pieces in this show were made as part of my larger body of work that speaks about personal and cultural acts of narcissism, but I selected them for this exhibition because they can also be read effectively through the lens of quarantine motherhood, a time when extreme self-reflection was required for survival.

cyanotype on cotton muslin and pink patterned cotton, pink satin, pinto beans and dismembered stuffed animals

The pandemic was emotionally difficult and challenging because we were always on top of one another; there was no physical space and therefore mental space felt collapsed. My children’s worlds became small and sometimes too compressed for their big emotions. Time is still long and deep but not in the way the first five – six months of the pandemic felt. Now it’s pockmarked with hope, things don’t feel as desperate, only now we face the fear of what it means to come back out into the light without masks. I wonder when the kids will play and feel with abandon like they used to. This work titled Fortification, is created using cyanotype and forms inspired by my children; toys, sounds and pillows for movies, and fighting and care.